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America must not become a paper policeman

2021-03-25T19:37:28.584Z


ANALYSIS - Joe Biden has promised a great return from his country to the world stage. But its proactive rhetoric displays a potentially dangerous gap with existing means and the new context. Above all, this posture underestimates the depth of the political crisis, which will have to be ...


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America is back"

, proclaimed Joe Biden at the Munich conference in February, having already used the formula to American diplomats of Foggy Bottom, the State Department.

It was a way of indicating that he wanted to break with the Trump era characterized by the slogan of "America first", in short, to return to a more generous, more multilateral, more democratic and more involved era. in world affairs as "

indispensable power

", this formula so long used to qualify the role of the United States.

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But wasn't it a bit dated and out of touch with the circumstances?

What could this American "comeback" mean, when the world in which Joe Biden will deploy his action has fundamentally changed in four years and America has weakened considerably?

A return to its allies in Europe and Asia?

Towards its role as a stabilizing power in the world and defender of democracy in the face of authoritarian systems, and first of all

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Source: lefigaro

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